Coaching practices for Ideal Final Result Triz
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Every option I’m weighing is just a tweak on what already exists
- I’ve been brainstorming this for hours and every idea is a slight variation on the same one
- I keep going in circles on this because every fix just shoves the problem somewhere else
- What I’ve built has gotten so complicated that it keeps breaking in new places, and I suspect half the moving parts are doing work something else could absorb
- My goal is something fuzzy like "work on my business" or "get healthier," so I’m always doing things toward it but I’d never actually know when I’d arrived
Practices that may help
- Define the ideal final result first
Describe the perfect outcome as if the solution already exists and costs nothing, then work backward to what could enable it.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies. - Sample inventive principles to generate solution directions
Apply one or more of TRIZ’s 40 inventive principles as generative lenses, even without the full contradiction matrix.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Name the contradiction at the heart of the problem
State exactly which parameter you need to improve and which parameter gets worse as a result.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Trim components to find what you can remove
Systematically ask which components in your current solution could be removed if another component took over their function.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Define the result before listing tasks
Before planning any action, write a single clear statement of the specific outcome you want.
Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical - Think in scenarios and stories, not task lists
Describe your ideal outcome for a period as a short narrative before breaking it into actions.
Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical - Inventory available resources before adding anything new
List all time, space, information, and energy already present in or around the problem — solutions often hide there.
TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions - Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol. - The Rule of Three for Productivity, Made Practical
Chris Bailey’s Rule of Three is a simple planning practice: at the start of each day (and week), identify three outcomes you want to achieve — not a task list, but specific results. It is a practitioner system with no formal trials; its value comes from forcing a distinction between tasks and outcomes and reducing the cognitive overhead of open-ended planning. The number three is a heuristic aligned with working-memory research, not a precisely studied threshold.
Related concerns
- How To Use Triz
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies.
- Triz Resources
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies.
- Physical Contradiction Triz
State exactly which parameter you need to improve and which parameter gets worse as a result.
Name the contradiction at the heart of the problem
- Technical Contradiction Triz
TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) is a systematic innovation method developed by Genrich Altshuller after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patents. Its core insight is that most breakthrough problems contain a "technical or physical contradiction" — a situation where improving one parameter worsens another — and that inventors across fields resolve these contradictions using a surprisingly small set of recurring strategies.
- Triz 40 Inventive Principles
Apply one or more of TRIZ’s 40 inventive principles as generative lenses, even without the full contradiction matrix.
Sample inventive principles to generate solution directions
- Triz Contradiction Matrix
State exactly which parameter you need to improve and which parameter gets worse as a result.
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